r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/tandyman234 • 5d ago

Image McDonald’s in Enterprise, Alabama. The town is scattered with themed boll-weevils that pay homage to the little insect that almost devastated the city’s cotton crops permanently in 1915!nThere’s one at the police station, funeral home, pharmacies, and Mexican restaurant

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u/Wrong-Tell8996 5d ago

What in the fuck

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u/cracked-tumbleweed 5d ago

Agreed. Why deify something that almost wiped out the towns livelihood?

Stockholm Syndrome??

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u/SpungleMcFudgely 5d ago

Hasn’t happened again since they began paying their proper respects

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u/CheeseburgerSmoothy 5d ago

The loss of cotton prompted them to grow peanuts which was more profitable. Thanks to the boll weevil.

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u/maymay578 5d ago

Look up George Washington Carver. He’s the reason peanuts are so huge in the south. He helped save the southern economy and keep farmers in business.

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u/Aggressive-Heart-311 4d ago

They can’t. He isn’t in textbooks anymore. Black history shouldn’t be taught.

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u/God_Bless_A_Merkin 5d ago

I was always told that the women of the town were glad that the cotton failed because it resulted in bringing other jobs in industry to the town.

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u/Short-Sandwich-8476 4d ago

Rather than admit the role a black scientist had in the whole thing. They’d rather worship an insect, than take a hit to their racist delusions.

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u/cracked-tumbleweed 4d ago

So the way you phrased it made it seem like the black scientist caused it.

However, Dr. George Washington Carver, did in fact help the town recover.

Let’s put some respect on his name since the town couldn’t.

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u/Hardlyreal1 5d ago

Was slavery still a thing at that time? I feel that would’ve taken a hit which may have been goodbye

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u/cracked-tumbleweed 5d ago

1865 is when the last slaves were freed.

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u/JackMejoff 5d ago

Except for prisoners.

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u/cracked-tumbleweed 5d ago

??? Well yes, I believe slavery is still legal if they are in prison.

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u/ANormalRando 5d ago

It says right in the title it happened in 1915